LUC VANIERProfile page
Professor
College of Fine Arts
BIO
Luc Vanier @integralmovementresearch (MFA, M.AMSAT, MSDE) teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in ballet, somatics, pedagogy and interactive technology at the University of Utah where he is a Professor of Dance. He is also the Training Course Director of Salt Lake City Alexander Technique (SLCityAT). As a pedagogue and integral researcher, Luc has written, lectured and presented his research extensively nationally and internationally and his co-authored book “Dance and the Alexander Technique” was published by University of Illinois Press and recently in Spanish with Pequeña Hoja. He founded the Integral Movement Research Center, and co-created Framework for Integration, a movement analysis system anchored in the way babies and animals move that helps all movers make new, healthier movement decisions and encourages more coordinated and integrated bodily use (upcoming book, Moving into Skill: A Framework for Integration Summer 2025)
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- ProfessorCollege of Fine Arts1 Aug 2016 - present
DEGREES
- MFA, DanceUniversity of Illinois2001
CERTIFICATIONS
- Alexander Technique TeacherUrbana Center for the Alexander TechniqueMay 2001 - present
- Alexander Technique Training Course CirectorSLCityATMay 2010 - present